We’ve teamed up with Leon’s Beauty Secrets Revealed Blog to sponsor a GIVEAWAY! Today through November 15, visit Leon’s blog  for your chance to win this great prize! The winner will receive a basket with 4 full sized Pure Body Organics products!

- Lavender Body Mist

- Pink Grapefruit Body Wash

- Green Tea & Ginger Blossom Hand Creme

- Fragrance Free Body Butter

Just sign up for our newsletter and/or become a fan of our Facebook page to enter!

This month’s Costco Connection features an article all about Fancy Nancy!

To view the article, click here – FN Costco November 2009 

I just came across a nice article about the benefits of Aloe Vera at Beauty Secrets Revealed – Organic Skin Care Blog. Many of the products in the Pure Organics Skin Care line contain Aloe Vera – Read the article to find out why it’s so great!

“Skin and Hair Benefits of Aloe Vera

Aloe plants have been used for thousands of years as a natural way to heal the body, prevent problems, and soothe skin. There are more than 200 varieties of these desert lilies, but Aloe Vera is by far the most popular and the easiest to find. It contains a dizzying array of minerals, vitamins, amino acids, natural sugars, anti-inflammatory agent and enzymes. This combination gives this miracle plant healing properties that simply cannot be denied. Let’s take a look at some of the skin and hair benefits of aloe vera.

…….Click here to read the rest……..

Shop Pure Organics, with aloe vera!

Doesn’t fall have the best fragrances? Pumpkin, cinnamon, mulling cider- all make you feel so warm and cozy! These comforting fragrances, and more, can be found now in our sale section! Quantities are limited, so make sure you get them while they last to make your home and body delightfully fragranced for the season!

This month, Trader Joes has a section in their “Fearless Flyer” about our Antibacterial Hand Gel that we make for them — check it out!

http://www.traderjoes.com/flyers/ca_south_flyer.pdf

Check out the latest Fancy Nancy Book release – Fancy Nancy: Halloween or Bust! The book includes a sticker book with more than 30 fabulous stickers.

Fancy Nancy is a perfect role model for young girls – her sassy, irreverant attutide is so fun.

Check out our line of Fancy Nancy products here – Wholesale Fancy Nancy, currently only available at wholesale.

We are very excited to announce that SJ Creations’ Fancy Nancy children’s products have been selected by Target for their See Spot Save campaign! The products will not be in stores until next September, but we are thrilled about this opportunity to work with Target.

4 of our items have been chosen, and will each be sold at retail for $1. Stay tuned for updates!

My skin has been rapidly drying up as the weather is getting colder, and it made me wonder — Why does skin get so dry when it is cold out? It’s such a common thing but I never really knew the reason, so I did some investigating!

Here is what I learned:

• The medical name for dry skin is Xeroderma.
• When it’s cold outside, we use heaters inside. This switching between temperatures has a drying effect on skin. Heaters tend to dry out the air, unless you use a humidifier.
• The lower the humidity of the air, the faster water escapes from your skin (60% humidity balances the skin, anything lower causes water to evaporate from the skin and dry out).
• Dry skin results when the outer layer of your skin (which holds natural oils that prevent the moisture in the deeper layers of skin from escaping) is damaged/dry and does not function properly.

What can you do to heal dry skin?

• Moisturize! Body butters are the most healing, their thick formulation absorbs into dry skin and helps bring back the top layer of skin so that it can do it’s job. Lotions are great as well, and for the face you should use face-specific products that do no irritate the sensitive skin of the face.

Shop Body Butters

Shop Body Lotion

Shop Face Moisturizer

Don’t let dry skin get you down this winter! Stock up on Pure Organics moisturizers before it’s too late.

Sources:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/dry-skin-causes-and-treatment.html

http://www.locateadoc.com/questions.cfm/646

http://www.uihealthcare.com/topics/skinhealth/winterskin.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_skin

Jack Kahn just sent over the second feature he did for our radio commercial! Have a listen, let us know what you think.

Check our our first ever radio commercial! Jack Kahn with It’s A Matter of Your Health is featuring SJ Creations on his radio program, which is focused on Non-Toxic living this month. If you found our site because you heard the commercial, please leave us a comment!